Intimacy Painting

Pavel Vašíček is one of the most outstanding representatives of the young generation of Czech realist painters. From the beginning of his work he applied wide field of expression, ranging from hyperrealistic portraits, over expression to the completely soft painters gesture of gestic abstraction. The author's knowledge of the significance of the various developmental periods of European art, Baroque, Mannerism, Expressionism, is an important and influential part of the overall concept of some of his works, drawing attention in their basic thoughts of the values and ideas of pluralism. He is particularly known for his monumental realistic-expressive figurative compositions whose motives are turning to issues of preserving the urgency and importance of human individuality in contemporary mass media society. The author is looking for a kind of intellectualized primitivism, provocative combination of intellect and opposition to excessive aestheticism. He puts the accent on content and intellectual background and he doesn´t follow artistic conventions of today. At the same time, he ironizing these conventions trough figurative elements. In the years 2000 - 2006 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Studio of classical painting techniques of prof. Zdeněk Beran.